Former President Donald Trump advised Christian conservatives on Monday that they’ll “make a comeback like just about no other group” if he wins the 2024 presidential election.
Trump, the presumptive 2024 Republican nominee for president of the US, delivered a pre-recorded message to the Danbury Institute’s Life & Liberty Discussion board on Monday. The Life & Liberty Discussion board was considered one of a number of occasions that passed off as a part of the Southern Baptist Conference’s annual assembly in Indianapolis, Indiana.
In his remarks, which lasted nearly two minutes, Trump expressed gratitude to the attendees for his or her “tremendous devotion to God and to country” and their “tremendous support of me.”
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“I hope I’ve earned it because we’ve done things that nobody thought were possible to have gotten done,” he mentioned.
“These are difficult times for our nation and your work is so important,” he added. “We can’t afford to have anyone sit on the sidelines. Now is the time for us to all pull together and to stand up for our values and for our freedoms.”
Trump advised the group to not vote Democrat as a result of “they’re against religion; they’re against your religion in particular.”
Reiterating that “you cannot vote for Democrats,” he insisted that “you have to get out and vote.”
“We have to defend religious liberty, free speech, innocent life and the heritage and tradition that built America into the greatest nation in the history of the world,” he mentioned. “I know that each of you is protecting those values every day, and I hope we’ll be defending them side-by-side for your next four years.”
Trump assured Life & Liberty Discussion board attendees that “these are going to be your years because you’re going to make a comeback like just about no other group.”
“I’ll be with you side-by-side” he mentioned, urging spiritual leaders “to get their incredible people that love them so much and respect them so much … out to vote.”
The Danbury Institute was launched earlier this 12 months by a coalition of main church buildings, Christians and organizations to revive an effectual Christian worldview in a rustic more and more sympathetic to the “sexualization of children, abortion on demand, and the infringement of religious liberty.”
The group describes itself as “committed to truth and virtue in a world that validates absurdity as normal and ridicules what 10 years ago was taken for granted.” The group identifies “the practice of abortion” as “the greatest atrocity facing our generation today” and condemns it for example of “sacrifice on the altar of self.”
After the U.S. Supreme Courtroom’s overturn of Roe v. Wade in 2022, Trump has confronted criticism from pro-life advocacy teams for suggesting that abortion legal guidelines ought to be left to the states and pushed again towards the concept of enacting federal legal guidelines to limit abortions to earlier phases of being pregnant.
Many professional-life organizations have condemned Trump’s place as insufficient.
Along with sustaining a steadfast opposition to abortion, the Danbury Institute has slammed the “rampant efforts to ‘trans’ our youngest generation.” The group highlighted its perception that “God is the author of life and that he alone determines gender.”
In a speech on the Conservative Political Motion Convention in 2023, Trump vowed to “revoke every Biden policy promoting the chemical castration and sexual [mutilation] of our youth and ask Congress to send me a bill prohibiting child sexual mutilation in all 50 states.”
The 2024 presidential election is lower than 5 months away. The RealClearPolitics common of polls asking voters who they plan on supporting within the 2024 presidential election, based mostly on surveys taken from Could 28-June 9, exhibits Trump main Biden by 0.5% in a two-way race.
In a five-way race during which voters have the choice to decide on between Trump, Biden, impartial candidates Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Cornel West, and presumptive Inexperienced Celebration nominee Jill Stein, Trump’s lead grows to 2 factors. The RealClearPolitics “no toss-up” map, which forecasts how every candidate will carry out within the Electoral Faculty based mostly on polls carried out in every state, exhibits Trump would win 312 electoral votes whereas Biden would seize 226 electoral votes if the election had been held at present.
Ryan Foley is a reporter for The Christian Put up. He could be reached at: ryan.foley@christianpost.com
“Well bless their hearts.”
